[marktwain]

“The British Government was TOTALLY AGAINST a Homeland for the Jews and everything that government did went AGAINST THE JEWS and their Homeland!!”

That is not true, as the Scotsman has pointed out. British policy was mixed. There was considerable support for a Jewish homeland within the British government.

The paragraph that you quote directly contradicts your words.

[the scotsman]

Thank you, sir.

[Star Traveler]

It doesn’t sound like that paragraph contradicted my words at all, and any other person reading it will think the same thing, as I say.

Here is just one partial sentence from that paragraph ... “Here was a British Intelligence Officer, in complete contradistinction to British Imperial policy at the time ...”

Hmmm ... “in complete contradistinction to British Imperial policy at the time ...”

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The Jewish Intelligence Officer didn’t know what to make of this man. Here was a British Intelligence Officer, in complete contradistinction to British Imperial policy at the time, telling him that he would lead the Jews to an independent state. British policy, by 1936, was certainly against an independent Jewish state, and in fact had consistently frustrated attempts to expand Jewish immigration into Palestine. This policy was to become more pronounced with the passing years, and as World War loomed on the horizon, the British limited Jewish immigration into Palestine to a mere trickle. By 1936 (but actually since the inception of the Mandate) few British officers were trusted by the Jews. Most British soldiers were overtly pro-Arab. Few Jews in Palestine knew, in September 1936, what a treasure-trove they had in the person of Orde Wingate, a faithful friend who would do anything to pave the way to an independent Jewish state.

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And once again ... “The British Government was TOTALLY AGAINST a Homeland for the Jews and everything that government did went AGAINST THE JEWS and their Homeland!!”

If the British Government had their way, namely if they hadn’t been fought against and blocked and DRIVEN OUT of the Jewish Homeland, the British Government would have had one state consisting of 2/3 ARABS and 1/3 Jews, with it being a PRIMARILY ARAB COUNTRY, with a few JEWS in it ... and NOT what we have today, which is a JEWISH NATION and country and a true HOMELAND FOR THE JEWS!

It’s a good thing that the British Government was NOT ABLE to accomplish what they tried to accomplish ... in establishing another ARAB COUNTRY in the Homeland of the Jews!